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Title: Eviction of Jew and Non-Jew Going to Trial
Source: The Jewish Journal Of Greater Los Angeles
URL Source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14391
Published: Jul 22, 2005
Author: Bobbi Murray
Post Date: 2005-07-24 01:51:44 by 1776
Keywords: Eviction, Non-Jew, Going
Views: 164
Comments: 11

A federal court trial, alleging that the Orthodox Jewish owners of a Pico-Robertson building evicted a tenant because he shared his apartment with a non-Jew, is scheduled to open in Los Angeles next week.

The suit by Lawrence “Chaim” Stein alleges that he was evicted in 2004 by the board of Torat Hayim, a nonprofit that is best known for its Pico-Robertson school and synagogue, but that also manages a handful of apartments.

Stein’s central piece of evidence in the suit is a voice mail left on his phone answering machine by Michael Braum, one of the suit’s defendants and the pro bono manager of the apartment in the 8800 block of Alcott Street.

“I can’t believe you rented to a goy,” says the voice on the tape, which Braum has acknowledged as his in a deposition.

“Two days after that, we get an eviction notice,” Stein said.

Rejecting tenants based on religion is illegal. Braum noted in an interview that Torah Hayim’s tenants include non-Jews. He insisted that the issue was not religion, but that Stein unilaterally changed terms of the lease.

The eviction was later overturned in court. However, by that time, Stein had found another apartment, and his old quarters had been rented to someone else.

In the federal suit, Stein is seeking compensatory damages “in an amount according to proof,” and punitive damages up to three times the amount of actual damages.

Stein; his wife, Balan, and their four children, were living in a two-bedroom unit when Torat Hayim bought the building in 2000. According to Braum’s deposition, Torat Hayim acquired the building primarily as income property and secondarily to provide housing for the needy.

The rental income helps support Torat Hayim’s synagogue, private school and other services to the Iranian Jewish community.

Stein, a computer analyst, said he decided to let a non-Jewish friend, Marc Hutson-Montroy, move in with him after Stein’s purchase of a house in Las Vegas depleted his income. According to Stein’s attorneys, Braum showed up at the property on Sept. 15, 2003, and found Hutson-Montroy.

Braum acknowledged in the deposition that he asked Hutson-Montroy if he was Jewish. Braum told The Journal that he couldn’t believe that an Orthodox Jew would room with a non-Jew.

“If he brings in one McDonald’s sandwich, Stein cannot eat there anymore,” Braum said, referring to kosher dietary restrictions.

On Sept. 25, 2003, Braum’s message on Stein’s answering machine referred to Hutson-Montroy three times as a “goy.”

“Are you there? Are you moved out? Why? What kind of benefit do you get in giving this apartment to a goy?” Braum asked in the message, which Stein saved.

Days later, the eviction notice arrived.

Braum maintained in the interview that his use of the word “goy” was not meant as an insult.

It was his understanding, he said, that Stein was living there with his wife and children.

“Nobody had called. Nobody gave me the key,” Braum said.

It’s standard practice, he noted, for apartment owners to forbid subleases and to require new tenants to fill out an application form.

The suit is not the first run-in between Stein and Torat Hayim. Another dispute was settled by a rabbinical court in 2002.

In the 2002 case, Braum blamed a mold problem in the apartment on the overflow of a washer-dryer draining into a toilet. Stein blamed it on poor building maintenance.

That matter was settled in a rabbinical court, which ordered a $3,000 payment to Stein for having to “live in uninhabitable conditions” for three months, Stein said.


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#1. To: christine, zipporah, robin, Diana, Jethro Tull, Red Jones, CappsMadness, Eoghan, Bayonne (#0)

Our judeo-Christian heritage. Yeah sure.

If Americans Knew

1776  posted on  2005-07-24   1:53:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: 1776 (#1)

judeo-Christian heritage

Okay, when/who started that expression? I've used "Judeo-Christian ethics" all my life.

Pico-Robertson school and synagogue,
What kinda names are these for a synagogue?

“If he brings in one McDonald’s sandwich, Stein cannot eat there anymore,” Braum said, referring to kosher dietary restrictions.
So he acknowledges that this Judeo-Christian heritage has some serious limitations.

One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?

robin  posted on  2005-07-24   10:18:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robinBayonne, Jethro Tull (#2)

Judeo-Christian

I think it first started creeping into use in MSM in the 1970s or later.

If Americans Knew

1776  posted on  2005-07-24   11:58:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: 1776, crack monkey (#0)

That looks like an anti-semitic article you posted there, bub.

I hope you have permission from whatshisface..

Lady X  posted on  2005-07-24   12:02:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Lady X (#4)

That looks like an anti-semitic article you posted there, bub.

Thank you! My first laugh of the day.
The truth is no defense as Canada and Australia and Germany and France and other nations have so ruled when discussing the Self-Chosen.

If Americans Knew

1776  posted on  2005-07-24   12:16:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: 1776 (#5)

The truth is no defense as Canada and Australia and Germany and France and other nations have so ruled when discussing the Self-Chosen.

Yeah, but don't tell that fellow from yesterday that, he'll just want to censor it..

Lady X  posted on  2005-07-24   12:22:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Lady X, robin (#6)

"While I agree with you, if I say anything about US geopolitical interests with Israel, I might as well clean off my desk."
-- Unnamed reporter as quoted in American Media Censorship and Israel

Washington Report

1776  posted on  2005-07-24   12:26:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: 1776 (#1)

Rejecting tenants based on religion is illegal. Braum noted in an interview that Torah Hayim’s tenants include non-Jews. He insisted that the issue was not religion, but that Stein unilaterally changed terms of the lease.

This can be seen just as easily as an issue of race. Saying it is only a matter of religion is a dodge. To be a Jew, one's mother must be a Jew. So, their is racial purity in that respect. Not renting to a goy means not renting to one that does not have this racial purity.

I understand why they won't touch this aspect of the discrimination. The official line must be that Jews are a religion and not a race.

Bayonne  posted on  2005-07-24   12:32:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: 1776 (#5)

Those countries have reinforced the definition of antisemitism as 'putting one's own group interest ahead of the group interest of Jews.'

Antisemitism is a natural response to 'pro semitism.' There is nothing unethical about it. It is a survival mechanism.

Anti anti semitism is Marxism.

Bayonne  posted on  2005-07-24   12:36:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Bayonne (#9)

Antisemitism is a natural response to 'pro semitism.'

Exactly--a rational and reasonable reaction to the collective conduct, actions and behaviors of liberal Jews, Zionists, and Israel firsters who then maintain the resulting anti-semitism is wholly irrational--approaching a mental illness when it is nothing of the kind. As the liberal Jews, Zionists, and Israel firsters have inordinate control over and in the government and media and, therefore, have the power to define the game and set the rules, they are successful at protraying anti-semitism as illogical and outrageous.

And so goes the Zionist bandwagon.

Dr. Condoleezza Rice said that the “security of Israel is the key to security of the world.”

wbales  posted on  2005-07-24   12:54:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: wbales, robin, Bayonne (#10)

If you say, THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, then you are "anti-semitic".

Washington Report

1776  posted on  2005-07-24   20:08:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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